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Very Small Hopi Pueblo Laqan – Squirrel Katsina Doll - 25874
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Thu, Aug 4th 2016, 2:35pm
For two thousand years, the Hopi people have lived a desert lifestyle. They depend on water for their daily needs and for their plants, but water is in short supply. Over the years they have developed a system whereby they can pretty accurately forecast the weather, but that is not always sufficient for their needs. In order to ensure delivery of water when needed, they developed a pattern by which they ask for help from the supernatural forces that they believe control nature.